{"id":553560,"date":"2023-02-07T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553560"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T05:25:52","slug":"ceas-advise-against-retiring-thermal-power-plants-will-hit-renewable-energy-projects-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ceas-advise-against-retiring-thermal-power-plants-will-hit-renewable-energy-projects-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"CEA\u2019s advise against retiring thermal power plants will hit renewable energy projects: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite India\u2019s push for renewable energies, a recent notice issued by the Central Electricity Authority of India (CEA) to power utilities to not retire any thermal units until 2030 has alarmed experts who say the move will have a retrograde effect on the country\u2019s energy transition endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>In its notice on January 20, the CEA said \u201cthe country is witnessing huge energy demand post pandemic which is projected to surge at all-time high in coming summer of 2023 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore the role of thermal fleets including old thermal units becomes crucial in order to support renewable integration,\u2019\u2019 it said, adding that the power minister, in a meeting held on December 6, \u201cadvised not to retire any thermal units considering the expected demand scenario and availability of capacity in future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite India\u2019s push for renewable energies, a recent notice issued by the Central Electricity Authority of India (CEA) to power utilities to not retire any thermal units until 2030 has alarmed experts who say the move will have a retrograde effect on the country\u2019s energy transition endeavours. In its notice on January 20, the CEA said \u201cthe country is witnessing huge energy demand post pandemic which is projected to surge at all-time high in coming summer of 2023 and beyond.\u201d \u201cTherefore the role of thermal fleets including old thermal units becomes crucial in order to support renewable integration,\u2019\u2019 it said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}